Smasher:MikeHaze
| Mike Haze | |
|---|---|
| MikeHaze.png | |
| Character info | |
| Melee main | Fox |
| Brawl main | Marth |
| Other Brawl character | Meta Knight |
| Smash 4 mains | Lucario, Mario |
| Team info | |
| Crew(s) | Roundtable |
| Rankings and results info | |
| Most recent ranking |  2015 SSBMRank: 40th |
| Personal and other info | |
| Real name | Michael Pulido |
| Birth date | |
| Location | Burbank, California 
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| Miscellaneous info | |
| Skill | Top professional  Top professional (retired) |
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Mike Haze is a professional Melee and former Brawl player who resides in Burbank, California. His main character in Melee is Fox, while in Brawl he mained Marth and was the US's most prolific Marth player throughout its competitive life. He was the host of the Elite Four tournament series in southern California, and was a member of the Unity Ruleset Committee.
Mike Haze is currently ranked 7th on the SoCal Melee Power Rankings and 40th on the 2015 SSBMRank. He was also formerly ranked 6th on the West Coast Brawl Power Rankings, while being once ranked as high as 2nd on the SoCal Brawl PR.
Background
Mike Haze began playing Melee in 2006, after seeing HugS play at a tournament his school held. His first tournament was Champ Combo: Yayuhzzzz Edition.
Mike Haze eventually met a smasher by the name of INKS, who lived about 10 minutes away from him. Through INKS, Mike Haze learned advanced techs. INKS eventually moved, however. Mike Haze then ventured off to play new people, and is responsible for training/teaching smash to players such as Nes, Morb, and Tofu. He is responsible for the bringing together of a lot of the 818 smash community. He hosts smashfests at least a few times a week.
Up until April of 2007, Mike Haze attended tournaments about 1-2 times a month, until he stopped playing the game when his musical career took off. He marched with the Velvet Knights Drum and Bugle Corps. which took up all of his summer and a lot of time prior to that.
In September of 2007, Mike Haze began playing Melee again. Eventually, Mike Haze grew close to fellow smashers Mango and LuCKy, and they invited Mike Haze's (as the time) current crew (team 8bit - composed of Nes, Morb, and j666) to join Roundtable, forming the crew RoundBit.
As of 2008, Mike Haze began playing Brawl for fun, while playing Melee competitively throughout Southern California. After a 3rd place finish at Nexus 08, Mike Haze retired from Melee.
Mike Haze then played Super Smash Bros. Brawl competitively, and was ranked 3rd on the Southern California Power Rankings prior to his retirement. He traveled to Northern California about once every other month to compete with most smashers from the West Coast. He was considered the best Brawl Marth player in the United States throughout its active competitive life, as he beaten top players such as Ally before in tournament, and always significantly outperformed other Marths in the country. On the world stage, while Mike Haze's Marth was still among the best, Mikeneko and Mr. R outperformed Mike Haze's Marth at nationals.
After reportedly despising the "direction" in which the Brawl metagame had advanced towards, Mike Haze returned to the Melee scene, still playing his former main, Fox.
Notable tournament placings
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
| Tournament | Date | 1v1 placement | 2v2 placement | Partner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHOBO | April 10th-12th, 2009 | 17th | — | — |
| GENESIS | July 10th-12th, 2009 | 17th | 4th | Havok |
| EVO 2009 | July 17th-19th, 2009 | 3rd | 2nd | Fiction |
| MLG Orlando 2010 | April 16th-18th, 2010 | 10th | 13th | Havok |
| MLG Columbus 2010 | June 4th-6th, 2010 | 25th | 4th | Havok |
| MLG Raleigh 2010 | August 27th-29th, 2010 | 25th | 9th | Tearbear |
| MLG DC 2010 | October 15th-17th, 2010 | 6th | 17th | Havok |
| MLG Dallas 2010 | November 5th-7th, 2010 | 9th | 13th | Havok |
| Elite Four Kanto: Lorelei | March 5th, 2011 | 3rd | — | — |
| Elite Four Kanto: Bruno | March 19th, 2011 | 2nd | — | — |
| Elite Four Kanto: Agatha | April 2nd, 2011 | 4th | 1st | Tyrant |
| GENESIS 2 | July 15th-17th, 2011 | 25th | 9th | Tyrant |
| Apex 2012 | January 6th-8th, 2012 | 17th | 9th | Tyrant |
| SKTAR | July 14th-15th, 2012 | 17th | — | — |
| Apex 2013 | January 11th-13th, 2013 | 33rd | 13th | Havok |
| SKTAR 2 | August 3rd-4th, 2013 | 17th | 5th | Tyrant |
| Forest Temple | January 11th, 2014 | 5th | 9th | Vato_break |
| Apex 2014 | January 17th-19th, 2014 | 49th | — | — |
Super Smash Bros. Melee
| Tournament | Date | 1v1 placement | 2v2 placement | Partner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pat's House 2 | May 24th-25th, 2014 | 13th | — | — |
| SSS Lock-In | June 14th-15th, 2014 | 17th | 4th | Remen |
| Kings of Cali 4 | July 5th-6th, 2014 | 9th | 7th | Jace |
| Super Smash Sundays 29 | December 7th, 2014 | 5th | — | — |
| Super Smash Sundays 30 | December 21st, 2014 | 17th | 4th | Medz |
| SWEET Prologue | January 3rd-4th, 2015 | 7th | 5th | HugS |
| Paragon Orlando 2015 | January 17th-18th, 2015 | 17th | — | — |
| Apex 2015 | January 30th-February 1st, 2015 | — | 25th | Sung |
| I'm Not Yelling! | April 11th-12th, 2015 | 13th | — | — |
| EVO 2015 | July 17th-19th, 2015 | 49th | — | — |
| Super Smash Con | August 6th-9th, 2015 | 9th | — | — |
| PAX Prime 2015 | August 28th-30th, 2015 | 13th | 5th | Iceman |
| HTC Throwdown | September 19th, 2015 | 17th | — | — |
| Smash the Record 2015 | October 23rd-25th, 2015 | 3rd | — | — |
| GENESIS 3 | January 15th-17th, 2016 | 25th | — | — |
Combo video
Mike Haze is the creator of the combo video "Rise and SHINE".
